Dennis Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941–October 12, 2011),[1][2][3][4] was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era."[1] He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the UNIX operating system.[1] Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983, the Hamming Medal from the IEEE in 1990 and the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. He was the 'R' in K&R C.
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| Born | September 9, 1941 Bronxville, New York, U.S. |
| Died | October 12, 2011 (aged 70) |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | ALTRAN B BCPL C Multics Unix |
| Awards | Turing Award National Medal of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Lucent Technologies Bell Labs |
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